BLIND PENETRATING WOUND OF THE SKULL BY A NAIL AS A METHOD OF SUICIDE

Abstract

Background: The issue of suicide and auto-aggressive behavior is becoming one of the most urgent problems of current time. That is why the problem of suicide prevention are now of particular importance, and the study of the problem of suicide is of great scientific and practical interest for specialists in various specialties, including forensic experts. Description of the expert case: The morphological features of damage to the structures of the head during a completed suicide by driving a building fastener - a metal nail, 15 cm long into the cranial cavity are described. The nature of the morphological changes in the anatomical structures along the wound channel had typical features: perforated fractures of the bones of the skull, with a cone-shaped expanding defect in the bones of the inner walls of the perforated fracture. Brain structures were damaged along the wound channel. The stab wound was blind. Conclusion: Ways of causing self-harm in suicide can be of a diverse nature, including very unusual ones. In this case, during the performance of the examination in the absence of operational-investigative information, it was not possible to understand the circumstances of the death, to unambiguously assume the type of death.